Comments on: Quick google search trick

By: Carl Rischer

Carl Rischer — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:07:52 +0000

Dragging the highlighted word to the dock, doesn’t work on my Mac (and the Leopard software is up-to-date).

However, highlighting the work and then hitting command-shift-L works fine and seems much more efficient than dragging a highlighted word all the way to the dock.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:25:26 +0000

The keyboard shortcut is useful.
Command+Shift+L

By: hungry

hungry — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:15:36 +0000

There is also a shortcut for this.

Highlight the word or phrase and push:

Command+Shift+L

It opens a new browser window with Google search

By: Jerid

Jerid — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:09:42 +0000

Good idea, but an even simpler way would be to highlight your word or phrase in the text, hold in the control key and click on it. The box that opens, choose Search in Google. Works with a right click as well if you have a mighty mouse (or other) and the right click is set as a secondary button.

By: MH

MH — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:57:27 +0000

hey, cool and amezing!

By: James

James — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:01:25 +0000

sometimes the simplest tricks are the most useful

By: JKB

JKB — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:48:44 +0000

Nice!

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:46:28 +0000

You can do that on Firefox 3 as well.

By: niclet

niclet — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:16:39 +0000

Hey that work very well.

@ Brenner: Select a word or a sentence in a text, then drag it on the Safari icon in the Dock.

By: Brenner

Brenner — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:06:50 +0000

I can’t drag text….?